Human Geography: Society, Space and Social Science

ISBN-13: 9780333452516 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str.

Derek Gregory;Ron Martin;Grahame Smith

Opis

Human geography is currently undergoing a rapid and far-reaching re-orientation, based on a redefined and much closer relationship with other social sciences. Aimed at a broad student readership, this book focuses on developments in social scientific theory of particular significance in rethinking human geography and on the contribution the geographical imagination can make to good social science.

Spis treści

Preface.- List of Figures.- List of Contributors Introduction: Human Geography, Social Change and Social Science; D.Gregory, R.Martin & G.Smith.- PART ONE: THE CORE OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Economic Theory and Human Geography; R.Martin.- Political Theory and Human Geography; G.Smith.- Social Theory and Human Geography; D.Gregory.- PART TWO: PERSPECTIVES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY The Environmental Challenge; T. Bayliss-Smith & S.Owens The Transformation of Cultural Geography; L.McDowell Images, Myths and Alternative Geographies of the Third World; M.Bell Taking Aim at the Heart of the Region; N.Thrift Urban Geography in a Changing World; S.Smith History, Geography and the 'Still Greater Mystery' of Historical Geography; C.Philo.- Index.